China's packaging industry has a large social demand and a growing scientific and technological content, which has become one of the important industries in our national economy. It is predicted that from 2011 to 2015, the total output value of the packaging industry can reach 600 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. By 2015, the paper packaging products can reach 36 million tons, 9 million 460 thousand tons of plastic packaging products, 4 million 910 thousand tons of metal packaging products, 15 million 500 thousand tons of glass packaging products, 1 million 200 thousand sets of packaging machinery. By 2020, China's packaging industry will meet the needs of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and build a new Chinese packaging industry with high technology content, good economic returns, low resource consumption, less environmental pollution and full advantage of talent resources. The packaging industry has become a "sunrise" industry with great potential for development.

At present, China's packaging industry is still a lot of unreasonable, that is, from the product structure, simple and original products, deep processing and fine processing products; ordinary plastic packaging products accounted for a larger proportion, functional packaging product development is not enough; heavy plastic packaging products light plastic packaging materials, equipment technology research and development, production of light weight; product upgrading slow, plastic packaging has led to unreasonable product structure, can not fully adapt to changes in market demand. Two, from the enterprise structure, the plastic packaging enterprise has a small scale, and the industrial concentration is low. Three, from the perspective of regional structure, the packaging industry in the western region is relatively backward, while the eastern Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Fujian plastic packaging industry is very developed.

As usual, packaging industry is in a stage of rapid development, but the estimates of China's packaging industry will present overcapacity, excessive dependence on energy resources consumption, independent innovation ability is weak, enterprise competition ability is not strong, the range of industrial and economic benefits not commensurate with the structure and quality defects will be highlighted. Extending the industrial chain of packaging industry, making a big and big packaging industry, optimizing the industrial structure and strengthening the ability of independent innovation will be the trend of the future packaging industry.

The future development of the packaging industry is not limited to the development and application of the packaging material itself, but also to make an effort in deep processing, our packaging industry is still in the packaging industry chain downstream, low level packaging technology more sustainable future packaging industry also need to adjust the industrial structure.

In the lower reaches of the packaging industry, the function of packaging has long been not only limited to the protection of food and transportation, but also has become an important part of the value growth of commodities, and an important link to improve the added value of goods. Therefore, in the terminal market, packaging enterprises pay more and more attention to the humanization and function of packaging.

In addition, the packaging industry has begun to pay attention to the impact on the environment. Because packaging materials occupy a large amount of material, or pollute the natural environment or damage human health by packaging materials, packaging green becomes a noticeable important content in green marketing. Light weight and degradation have become an important concept in the marketing of many enterprises.

China packaging industry to extend the industrial chain to the prosperity and development of China with the profound development of commodity economy, improve people's quality of life and raise the level of consumption, accelerate the pace of life, consumers of microwave food, leisure food, frozen food isokinetic food demand increasing. Insiders pointed out that this trend will accelerate the frozen food, convenience food packaging needs; at the same time, the government proposed the plan of agricultural industrialization development, the development of deep processing of agricultural and sideline products, and agricultural and sideline products deep processing project supporting the needs of a large number of packaging machinery and packaging materials; national development and Reform Commission, food processing and packaging machinery as the focus of food industry development priorities, these will have broad prospects for development of packaging machinery industry, the future for a long period of time, the food and packaging machinery of the annual growth rate is expected to exceed 12%.